[uClibc]Re: ld-linux.so

Erik Andersen andersen at lineo.com
Wed Feb 14 17:51:51 UTC 2001


On Wed Feb 14, 2001 at 06:35:08PM +0200, michaels at jungo.com wrote:
> Erik Andersen wrote:
> > 
> > I would very much like to have a shared library loader included in
> > uClibc, just havn't gotten around to working on it.  So, press on --
> > your work will be gladly accepted[1].
> 
> Well, so far I have obtained ld.so shared object which crashes ugly. 
> Disassembly looks quite OK, but the debugger is unable to execute any
> single instruction. I guess the entry point is in _dl_start in rtld.c,
> so that if I will try to debug the reason why it fails to start, I know
> the place where to start. 
> 
> I think I must warn that my acquaintance with glibc/uClibc is quite
> short-termed, so expect my code not to be uClibc-standard compliant. I
> hope it will not take too much to bring it to standard.

No problem.

> > [1] assuming it doesn't suck. ;-)
> 
> How suck it is to take something from glibc and make it work ? :-)

Thats fine.  Thats how I would have started -- shared library loaders
are 3/4 black magic and 1/4 voodo with an extra 1/4 nonsense thrown
in to help confuse things.

 -Erik

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